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1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Sections
2 10-9 and 10-10.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
6 Sections 10-9 and 10-10 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/10-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 10-9)
8 Sec. 10-9. The following electoral boards are designated
9 for the purpose of hearing and passing upon the objector's
10 petition described in Section 10-8.
11 1. The State Board of Elections will hear and pass upon
12 objections to the nominations of candidates for State
13 offices, nominations of candidates for congressional,
14 legislative and judicial offices of districts or circuits
15 situated in more than one county, nominations of candidates
16 for the offices of State's attorney or regional
17 superintendent of schools to be elected from more than one
18 county, and petitions for proposed amendments to the
19 Constitution of the State of Illinois as provided for in
20 Section 3 of Article XIV of the Constitution.
21 2. The county officers electoral board to hear and pass
22 upon objections to the nominations of candidates for county,
23 municipal, and township offices, for congressional,
24 legislative and judicial offices of a district or circuit
25 coterminous with or less than a county, for school and
26 community college district offices trustees to be voted for
27 by the electors of the county or by the electors of a
28 township of the county, for the office of multi-township
29 assessor where candidates for such office are nominated in
30 accordance with this Code, and for all special district
31 offices, shall be composed of the county clerk, or an
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1 assistant designated by the county clerk, the State's
2 attorney of the county or an Assistant State's Attorney
3 designated by the State's Attorney, and the clerk of the
4 circuit court, or an assistant designated by the clerk of the
5 circuit court, of the county, of whom the county clerk or his
6 designee shall be the chairman, except that in any county
7 which has established a county board of election
8 commissioners that board shall constitute the county officers
9 electoral board ex-officio.
10 3. (Blank). The municipal officers electoral board to
11 hear and pass upon objections to the nominations of
12 candidates for officers of municipalities shall be composed
13 of the mayor or president of the board of trustees of the
14 city, village or incorporated town, and the city, village or
15 incorporated town clerk, and one member of the city council
16 or board of trustees, that member being designated who is
17 eligible to serve on the electoral board and has served the
18 greatest number of years as a member of the city council or
19 board of trustees, of whom the mayor or president of the
20 board of trustees shall be the chairman.
21 4. (Blank). The township officers electoral board to
22 pass upon objections to the nominations of township officers
23 shall be composed of the township supervisor, the town clerk,
24 and that eligible town trustee elected in the township who
25 has had the longest term of continuous service as town
26 trustee, of whom the township supervisor shall be the
27 chairman.
28 5. (Blank). The education officers electoral board to
29 hear and pass upon objections to the nominations of
30 candidates for offices in school or community college
31 districts shall be composed of the presiding officer of the
32 school or community college district board, who shall be the
33 chairman, the secretary of the school or community college
34 district board and the eligible elected school or community
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1 college board member who has the longest term of continuous
2 service as a board member.
3 6. In all cases, however, where the Congressional or
4 Legislative district is wholly within the jurisdiction of a
5 board of election commissioners and in all cases where the
6 school district or special district is wholly within the
7 jurisdiction of a municipal board of election commissioners
8 and in all cases where the municipality or township is wholly
9 or partially within the jurisdiction of a municipal board of
10 election commissioners, the board of election commissioners
11 shall ex-officio constitute the electoral board.
12 For special districts situated in more than one county,
13 the county officers electoral board of the county in which
14 the principal office of the district is located has
15 jurisdiction to hear and pass upon objections. For purposes
16 of this Section, "special districts" means all political
17 subdivisions other than counties, municipalities, townships
18 and school and community college districts.
19 In the event that any member of the county officers
20 electoral appropriate board is a candidate for the office
21 with relation to which the objector's petition is filed, he
22 or she shall not be eligible to serve on that board and shall
23 not act as a member of the board and his or her place shall
24 be filled by the county treasurer, and if he or she is
25 ineligible to serve, by the sheriff of the county. as
26 follows:
27 a. In the county officers electoral board by the
28 county treasurer, and if he or she is ineligible to
29 serve, by the sheriff of the county.
30 b. In the municipal officers electoral board by the
31 eligible elected city council or board of trustees member
32 who has served the second greatest number of years as a
33 city council or board of trustees member.
34 c. In the township officers electoral board by the
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1 eligible elected town trustee who has had the second
2 longest term of continuous service as a town trustee.
3 d. In the education officers electoral board by the
4 eligible elected school or community college district
5 board member who has had the second longest term of
6 continuous service as a board member.
7 In the event that the chairman of the electoral board is
8 ineligible to act because of the fact that he is a candidate
9 for the office with relation to which the objector's petition
10 is filed, then the substitute chosen under the provisions of
11 this Section shall be the chairman; In this case, the officer
12 or board with whom the objector's petition is filed, shall
13 transmit the certificate of nomination or nomination papers
14 as the case may be, and the objector's petition to the
15 substitute chairman of the electoral board.
16 When 2 or more eligible individuals, by reason of their
17 terms of service on a city council or board of trustees,
18 township board of trustees, or school or community college
19 district board, qualify to serve on an electoral board, the
20 one to serve shall be chosen by lot.
21 Any vacancies on the county officers an electoral board
22 not otherwise filled pursuant to this Section shall be filled
23 by public members appointed by the Chief Judge of the Circuit
24 Court for the county wherein the electoral board hearing is
25 being held upon notification to the Chief Judge of such
26 vacancies. The Chief Judge shall be so notified by a member
27 of the electoral board or the officer or board with whom the
28 objector's petition was filed. In the event that none of the
29 individuals designated by this Section to serve on the
30 electoral board are eligible, the chairman of the an
31 electoral board shall be designated by the Chief Judge.
32 (Source: P.A. 87-570.)
33 (10 ILCS 5/10-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 10-10)
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1 Sec. 10-10. Within 24 hours after the receipt of the
2 certificate of nomination or nomination papers or proposed
3 question of public policy, as the case may be, and the
4 objector's petition, the chairman of the electoral board
5 other than the State Board of Elections shall send a call by
6 registered or certified mail to each of the members of the
7 electoral board, and to the objector who filed the objector's
8 petition, and either to the candidate whose certificate of
9 nomination or nomination papers are objected to or to the
10 principal proponent or attorney for proponents of a question
11 of public policy, as the case may be, whose petitions are
12 objected to, and shall also cause the sheriff of the county
13 or counties in which such officers and persons reside to
14 serve a copy of such call upon each of such officers and
15 persons, which call shall set out the fact that the electoral
16 board is required to meet to hear and pass upon the
17 objections to nominations made for the office, designating
18 it, and shall state the day, hour and place at which the
19 electoral board shall meet for the purpose, which place shall
20 be in the county court house in the county in the case of the
21 County Officers Electoral Board, the Municipal Officers
22 Electoral Board, the Township Officers Electoral Board or the
23 Education Officers Electoral Board. In those cases where the
24 State Board of Elections is the electoral board designated
25 under Section 10-9, the chairman of the State Board of
26 Elections shall, within 24 hours after the receipt of the
27 certificate of nomination or nomination papers or petitions
28 for a proposed amendment to Article IV of the Constitution or
29 proposed statewide question of public policy, send a call by
30 registered or certified mail to the objector who files the
31 objector's petition, and either to the candidate whose
32 certificate of nomination or nomination papers are objected
33 to or to the principal proponent or attorney for proponents
34 of the proposed Constitutional amendment or statewide
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1 question of public policy and shall state the day, hour and
2 place at which the electoral board shall meet for the
3 purpose, which place may be in the Capitol Building or in the
4 principal or permanent branch office of the State Board. The
5 day of the meeting shall not be less than 3 nor more than 5
6 days after the receipt of the certificate of nomination or
7 nomination papers and the objector's petition by the chairman
8 of the electoral board.
9 The electoral board shall have the power to administer
10 oaths and to subpoena and examine witnesses and at the
11 request of either party the chairman may issue subpoenas
12 requiring the attendance of witnesses and subpoenas duces
13 tecum requiring the production of such books, papers, records
14 and documents as may be evidence of any matter under inquiry
15 before the electoral board, in the same manner as witnesses
16 are subpoenaed in the Circuit Court.
17 Service of such subpoenas shall be made by any sheriff or
18 other person in the same manner as in cases in such court and
19 the fees of such sheriff shall be the same as is provided by
20 law, and shall be paid by the objector or candidate who
21 causes the issuance of the subpoena. In case any person so
22 served shall knowingly neglect or refuse to obey any such
23 subpoena, or to testify, the electoral board shall at once
24 file a petition in the circuit court of the county in which
25 such hearing is to be heard, or has been attempted to be
26 heard, setting forth the facts, of such knowing refusal or
27 neglect, and accompanying the petition with a copy of the
28 citation and the answer, if one has been filed, together with
29 a copy of the subpoena and the return of service thereon, and
30 shall apply for an order of court requiring such person to
31 attend and testify, and forthwith produce books and papers,
32 before the electoral board. Any circuit court of the state,
33 excluding the judge who is sitting on the electoral board,
34 upon such showing shall order such person to appear and
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1 testify, and to forthwith produce such books and papers,
2 before the electoral board at a place to be fixed by the
3 court. If such person shall knowingly fail or refuse to obey
4 such order of the court without lawful excuse, the court
5 shall punish him or her by fine and imprisonment, as the
6 nature of the case may require and may be lawful in cases of
7 contempt of court.
8 The electoral board on the first day of its meeting shall
9 adopt rules of procedure for the introduction of evidence and
10 the presentation of arguments and may, in its discretion,
11 provide for the filing of briefs by the parties to the
12 objection or by other interested persons.
13 In the event of a State Electoral Board hearing on
14 objections to a petition for an amendment to Article IV of
15 the Constitution pursuant to Section 3 of Article XIV of the
16 Constitution, or to a petition for a question of public
17 policy to be submitted to the voters of the entire State, the
18 certificates of the county clerks and boards of election
19 commissioners showing the results of the random sample of
20 signatures on the petition shall be prima facie valid and
21 accurate, and shall be presumed to establish the number of
22 valid and invalid signatures on the petition sheets reviewed
23 in the random sample, as prescribed in Section 28-11 and
24 28-12 of this Code. Either party, however, may introduce
25 evidence at such hearing to dispute the findings as to
26 particular signatures. In addition to the foregoing, in the
27 absence of competent evidence presented at such hearing by a
28 party substantially challenging the results of a random
29 sample, or showing a different result obtained by an
30 additional sample, this certificate of a county clerk or
31 board of election commissioners shall be presumed to
32 establish the ratio of valid to invalid signatures within the
33 particular election jurisdiction.
34 The electoral board shall take up the question as to
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1 whether or not the certificate of nomination or nomination
2 papers or petitions are in proper form, and whether or not
3 they were filed within the time and under the conditions
4 required by law, and whether or not they are the genuine
5 certificate of nomination or nomination papers or petitions
6 which they purport to be, and whether or not in the case of
7 the certificate of nomination in question it represents
8 accurately the decision of the caucus or convention issuing
9 it, and in general shall decide whether or not the
10 certificate of nomination or nominating papers or petitions
11 on file are valid or whether the objections thereto should be
12 sustained and the decision of a majority of the electoral
13 board shall be final subject to judicial review as provided
14 in Section 10-10.1. The electoral board must state its
15 findings in writing and must state in writing which
16 objections, if any, it has sustained.
17 Upon the expiration of the period within which a
18 proceeding for judicial review must be commenced under
19 Section 10--10.1, the electoral board shall, unless a
20 proceeding for judicial review has been commenced within such
21 period, transmit, by registered or certified mail, a
22 certified copy of its ruling, together with the original
23 certificate of nomination or nomination papers or petitions
24 and the original objector's petition, to the officer or board
25 with whom the certificate of nomination or nomination papers
26 or petitions, as objected to, were on file, and such officer
27 or board shall abide by and comply with the ruling so made to
28 all intents and purposes.
29 (Source: P.A. 85-293; 86-1348.)
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